Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-01

are painters yet, Duo their strength OF
faculty multiplied ten thousand fold.
The reason that God took away their
eye and their hand, and their brains was
that He might give them something more
timber, more wieldy, more sklllful,
MORE MULTIPLITANT.
Do not, therefore. be melancholy among
the tapestries, and the bric-a-brac, and
the embroideries. and the water colors,
and the works of art which your de-
parted friends used to admire. Do not
say 81 am sorry they had to leave all
these things" Rather say: 81 am glad
they have gone up tc higher artistic OPP
portunity and appreciation" Our friends
who found SO much Joy in the fine arts on
earth ere now luXur!ating in Louvres and
LuXembourgS celestial.
| remark Sgain that al our departed
Christisn friends who in this world were
passionately foud of music are still regal
ing that taste in the world celestial. The
Bible says SO much about the music Of
heaven that it cannot all be fguratlve.
The Bible over and over again speaks Of
the songs Of heaven. II heaven had no
songs Of lis own vast number of those
OF earth would have been taken up by the
earthly emigrants. Surely the Christian
at death does not lose his memory. Then
there must be millions of souls il heaven
who know Coronation" and "Antioch,"
and "Mount Pisgah," and sod Hun
dred." The leader of the eternal orches-
ira need only once tsp his baton and ell
heaven will De ready for the halleIujsh.
Cannot the soul sing? How often we
compliment some exquisite singer by
saying: "There WGs so much soul in her
music" In heaven Il Will be all soul
until the body after awhile comes up in
the resurrection and then there will be
en- additional heaven. Cannot the soul
heGr? IL it can hear then
it can hear music. Do not, therefore,
lei il be IN your household when some
member leaves for heaven as il ia in
some households, that you close the
pianO and unstring the harp fer two
years, because the fingers that used to
play on them are still. You must re-
member that they have
BETTER INSTRUMENTS
Of music where they are.
You ask me: "Do they have real harps
and real trumpets and real organs?" l
Go rot know. Some wiseacres say posi-
lively there are no such things in heaven.
Go not know, but l should not be sur
priscd il the God who made ell the noun
t&ins and all the hills and al the forests
and all the metals of the earth and ell the
growths Of the univeTse-I should not be
surprised il He could, il He had mind to,
make few harps a1d trumpets and Or
gaDs.
Grand old Haydn, sick and worn out,
was carried for the last time into the
music nall and there he heard his own
OratociC OF the "Creation" History says
that as the orchestra came to that famous
passage: "Let there be light" the
whole audience rose and cheered
and Haydn waved his hand toward
heaven and said: at comes from there"
| Overwhelmed with his own music, he was
carried out in his chair, aud as he came
! 10 the door he spread out his hand to-
ward the orchestra Is IN benediction.
Haydn was right when he waved his
! hand toward heaven and said: sit comes
| from there"
Music was born il heaven and it will
| ever nave it's highest throne in heaven
| and | want you 10 understand that oul
departed friends who we're pess;onately
/ fond Of music here are now at the head
! quarters Of harmony. l think that tht
grand old church tunes that died Wher
your grandfGtherS died have gone witt
them TO heaven.
Again, remark that those Of our de-
parted Christian friends who in this worlC
had very strong military spirit, ere nov
in armies celestial and GU. on blOodles
battlefelds. There 8re hundreds of peopl
born soldiers. They can not help it
They belong TO regiments in time o
peace. They can not hear drum or tift
| without trying to keep step TO the music
They are Christians, and when they fgh
they fight on the right side. Now whel
these, our Christian friends who hat
natural and powerful military spirit, Ell
tered heaven, they entered
THE CELESTIAL ARMY.
The door of heaven hardjy opens bu
you hear emilitsry demonstration. Dav
id cried out: "The chariot5 OF God are
10000" Elisha saw the mountain tilleC
with celestial cavalry. st. John SAID
"The armies which are in heaven are FOL
lowing Him on white horses" Now
when those who had the military spiri
ca earth sanctitled entered glory, | sup
pose they right away enlisted in som
heavenly campaign, they volunteers,
right away. There must needs be il
hesven soldiers with q s0ldieriy spirit
There are grand parade days when tn
King reviews the troops. There must b
armed escort sent out to bring up from
earth to heaven those who were NOR
than corQuerors. There must be cru
Sedes ever being fitted out for some par
Of Gods dOmiuiOn-Osttles, bloodless
groanIess, painless. Angels Of EVIL to b
fought down and fought pack. Other re
, halliCuG worlds 10 be COlOuGrad World
TO be put to the torch. Worlds 10 b
saved. Worlds TO DE demolished
! Worlds to sink. Worlds to be hoisted
} Beside that, in our own world Their
J Gre battles for the right and against th
wrong where we must have the heavenl
+ military. That is what keeps Us Christ
ian TefOrmers SO buoyant. SO few goo
t men against so many bad men, so fev
: churches against SO many grog shops, S
= few pure printing presses against s
7 many polluted printing presses; and ye
( we are buoyant and courageous, because
t while We know that the armies of evil i
e the world are larger in numbers than tn
g army of the truth, there are celestial CO
e horts in the air lighting on cur side.
have not so much faith in the arm
{ on the ground as | have in the army
I the cir. o, God. open our eyes that W
+ msy see them. The military spirits thu
d went up from earth 10 JOIN the mlItsl
r spirits before the throne-Jcshua, ST
: Caleb, and Gideon, and David, and San
t son, and the hundreds of Christian wa
= riors who on earth fought With flesh
h arm, and now having gone up on high s.
d coming down
n THE lNrgS